“There was a time when nights were for sleep…
…Deep, dreamless sleep.
I cannot sleep.
I wake out of fear.
I have held vigil each night until daylight.
But this is the worst hour.
The old people used to call it the “Hour of the Wolf.”
It is the hour at which most people die
and most children are born.
It’s now that the nightmares come to us.
And when we are awake we are afraid. “

Hour of the Wolf (1968).

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